WHAT IS JIHAD?

[Aknauta]

nypost.com

WHAT IS JIHAD?

By DANIEL PIPES


December 31, 2002 -- WHAT does the Arabic word "jihad" mean?
One answer came last week, when Saddam Hussein had his Islamic leaders appeal to Muslims worldwide to join his jihad to defeat the "wicked Americans" should they attack Iraq; then he himself threatened the United States with jihad.

As this suggests, jihad is "holy war." Or, more precisely: It means the legal, compulsory, communal effort to expand the territories ruled by Muslims at the expense of territories ruled by non-Muslims.

The purpose of jihad, in other words, is not directly to spread the Islamic faith but to extend sovereign Muslim power (faith, of course, often follows the flag). Jihad is thus unabashedly offensive in nature, with the eventual goal of achieving Muslim dominion over the entire globe.

sexist add in this link, beware (http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/65859.htm)

[Floridaguy]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">sexist add in this link, beware[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'> Since when is the NYP Travel magazine sexist? http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mdr11.gif Surely you weren't talking about VS? http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin2.gif

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[Aknauta]

Well I didn't want any of the dainty women here in our straight-laced Forum to get in any heavy breathing over this add for Victoria's Secret stuff.

[Floridaguy]

but they can still buy it if so inclined, right? http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rotflo.gif

[Terri]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Well I didn't want any of the dainty women here in our straight-laced Forum to get in any heavy breathing over this add for Victoria's Secret stuff. [/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
I do have to wonder if you have been in the frozen north too long. I don't see a Victoria's Secret ad but I do see one for Viagra. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rotflo.gif

I don't think there is much doubt of Saddam's meaning of Jihad.

[pRIMrose]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"> I don't see a Victoria's Secret ad but I do see one for Viagra.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

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[Charie]

Sheesh, I'm thinking of joining the Midwest Victoria's Secret Jihad.

I didn't see anything but the article about the various jihads may God rest their souls............... soon.

[Aknauta]

OK, well they must change the adds, because it was a long limbed beauty with some sort of minimal black underwear on at the time I read the piece. Made it hard to concentrate on the article.

[AngelsRWorldChamps]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aknauta @ Jan. 01, 2003 -- 7:22 pm)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">OK, well they must change the adds, because it was a long limbed beauty with some sort of minimal black underwear on at the time I read the piece. Made it hard to concentrate on the article.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
At least she was not selling the little blue Pill., because that would put my budy Robert Dole out of work.

[Floridaguy]

http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif You guys are too funny. You know there is thread drift when the ads get more attention than the article.... http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

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[Terri]

I know. We should start over because Daniel Pipes always has good things to say.